Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST.. ( Nearly the entire business portion of South Royalton, Vt., and nine dwellings' were burned, the losses being $160,000.... Nichols A Farnsworth, dealers in shoe manufacturers' goods at Boston, i have failed for a large amount, owing to the outside operations of Farnsworth. A kerosene explosion in the Erie yard at Jersey City caused the destruction of five Pullman cars, the Northern freight depot, and a large amount of miscellaneous freight. The loss will aggregate nearly M 00,000.... The bar and mnck mills of pug A Co.'s iron works at Pittsburgh were damaged $60,(N0 by fire.... Ex-President Arthur’s health is reported as very much improved. ■